Show WW W jit j A W f AT antl 7 0 O ii C I 1 m n ir I 1 c 4 ta 4 v W aw A 1 W f ij akl V II v 11 V 7 e 1 1 f r 4 Y X sta z I 1 aeh Vs ea z ia I 1 Z s 3 z z it tir I 1 Z A Z 1 ii 1 I 1 7 z i DF X clym A tic J 11 ARTYs t I 1 1 I Z 1 I 1 shaa s I 1 s 1 L w t i t I 1 I 1 VOICIE 11 colp 40 PR ESS onitha e I 1 vur F k I 1 af DAY 7 C I 1 f 1 A a v X I 1 I 1 41 I 1 z 7 11 rampant tw in a the cr 1 I 1 I 1 f a care j y cl ty coussen heui We Ui as ia I 1 the th cotar coberg ss twin irwi aj arbr e 1 and tarm t 1 i ak 1 41 the common coun coundi CA of chi caso is u bucan 49 to 19 there la no great promise of reform in such IL situation von tor for it la Is under republican 3 that the eo council uncil has become degenerate degen erate as has the board of county cOmm commission ers era avery one of the to towns ans in C cli cht li I 1 cago f is republican there is no great promise of reform in that tha i fact for near ly every one of these towns has h been scandalously mismanaged notoriously lynson lynS assessments Wn en othave tt hare have been made uneven what reform i ff i there in electing one of the worst wont aldermen as assessor sessor inthe in the riall rifi hest town Is ii there potency pot en cy of ret form fona in such a proceeding true ard the me sentiment among electors wh which leh sent to the ahai co council un 81 such me men n ILS as Guil guilcher ther and fitch reduced hepburne Hep buros burns plurality until it vas tra practically notice natice ta quit but mr hepburn will have his breden bials and there will be no rth ln in then the assessment es of the south to town wn there will be no reform ln in the assessment ot of imy any of the towns A commission appointed by the mayor whose who se sole eole idea has been tt to sll cure ng money tor for the people at the city hall is engaged now in akong a report of the actual values of the property in the south town north of twelfth street streel its report will 6 soon eon be ready Is there anybody BO as to think that alderman now to be assessor hepburn will be guided by a statement of values wh which teb emanates from so honest and capable au an assessor as mr jozep joseph the truth appears to be that reform la IB not desired by persons who are of great potency in the electorate the rich do not want a change in the methods of assessment they know how to control them to their advantage now they want grant a pliable man in the as they do not want an honest council they want a council that will w III respond to their demands when they choose to make them for gas com canles street thil railways ways or any of the many privileges that have conferred fortunet fortun ts uvon upon the beneficiaries bribed bribe d aldermen have not laid bad up great fortunes the money that comes in over the devils back goes out under the devils belly that easily had and unearned is quickly spent but while the boodle alderman has not made a great fortune for himself though he be had bad such purpose in view yet he has been the means of making at the expense oi of tle the city enor enormous ous fortunes fortun tit tor foi other ather men w there la Is very little substantial cause lor for oh the outcome of the local election the machine that has robbed the towns is in full possession of the aff offices ices ready to rob them anew the council is not mot materially je changed hanged A well meaning but adolescent reformer shouts exultation fit at the selection of tome bomb nondescript of the harlan character A majority sufficiently strong ta uphold the mayor in hit hift vetoes of corf corrupt tbt ordinances is assured this la Is doubly a it mis mistake taice first in the assurance that there is such a number of aldermen and next that the theT mayor nayor who was an alderman once upon a time himself has any P purpose cirp age of et vetoing corrupts corrupt ordinances s it if they are also ordinances in which lie he or his i friends hav i ean Inte interest resL mayor swift asand is and has been adre more culpable in the matter grantling of privileges to corporations without adequate compensation to the city afi than an a whole roll rall call of corrupt aldermen he signo signed the ordinance for the elevated loop in the south division I 1 when wh e n it was urged upon him that he ought to insist at least upon the incorporation ton of af a clause for foi cd compensation an he refused wh when en attention i n was as drawn to the insufficiency T of the consents he A declined beell ned to consider I 1 I 1 I 1 1 the matir asserting that mai fi hs s maii lantri tirl 1 van 06 jublle works department hid in d that was sufficient hj he dif e I 1 city riall railway wai ci ey to the heart b of L t h tand ty an d A thought i h ou alk that for wa ahls at aa the entering wedge wj iliac ampon every street of the downtown 3 al district Strict sim a few thousand dolt dol ze t abisi 1 afas 1 41 di ai compensation u the 7 ina 0 r id I 1 d V e t 6 t the I 1 W generale general electric 1 iut thi ta ic f 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